Coronavirus

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) directed laboratories testing patients for coronavirus to also report data based on their age, sex, race and ethnicity along with test results. The new requirements were released on Thursday in response to lawmakers' demands for a better picture of the pandemic.
Also, the government wants to know why the deadly respiratory disease is having

A small dip in the number of coronavirus related deaths was reported in the United States as the daily death toll dropped back to below 1000. With 909 more deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the country rose to 108,211. There is a small increase in the number of new COVID patients from what was reported in the previous day. An additional 21021 new cases

Late-stage biotech company Novavax Inc. (NVAX) announced Friday that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense or DoD to manufacture COVID-19 vaccine candidate NVX-CoV2373.
Under the deal, the company would deliver 10 million doses to DoD in 2020 that could be used in Phase...

With 1004 more deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the total number of coronavirus-related deaths in the United States rose to 107,175. An additional 19,699 new cases took the total number of infections in the country to 1,851,520, with 34 states and jurisdictions reporting more than 10,000 cases.
Nearly one third of the global cases are reported in the United States.
The worldwide Covid-19 d

Swiss drug maker Roche (RHHBY) announced Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an Emergency Use Authorisation or EUA for the Elecsys IL-6 test to help in identifying patients at high risk of severe inflammatory response.
Roche noted that the test can support physicians, in...

After a brief lull, the daily coronavirus-related deaths and infections in the United States returned to above 1000 and above 20000 marks respectively. It comes a day after the country recorded its lowest daily coronavirus death toll in two months. With 1039 new deaths reporting in the last 24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the country rose to 106,181 as of John Hopkins University

Monday, the United States recorded its lowest daily coronavirus death toll in two months. With 478 new deaths reporting in the last 24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the country rose to 105147 as of John Hopkins University's 9:00 a.m. ET update Monday. The last time a figure less than this was reported on March 29. Also, there was a drastic fall in the number of new infections fro

From a recent peak of 1379 recorded on May 27, the daily coronavirus death rate in the United States continued to show a downward trend. With 605 new deaths reporting in the last 24 hours, the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the country rose to 104683 as of John Hopkins University's 11:00 a.m. ET update Monday.
However, there is not much difference in the number of new infections.
With 21703

The U.S. Government has sent two million doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to Brazil to help the worst-affected country in Latin America treat its coronavirus patients with the drug. With 514,849 confirmed cases and 29,314 deaths, Brazil is the world's second worst-affected country. The White House announced the Health Cooperation package on Sunday, the day the number of infections in Brazil pas

After a week's lull in the number of people getting infected from coronavirus in the United States, the daily infection rate has climbed back to above 20,000. With 23051 new cases reporting in the last 24 hours, the total number of infections in the country rose to 1,721,926 as of John Hopkins University's 6:00 a.m. ET update Friday.This is 4374 more cases than what was reported in the previous d

The number of coronavirus deaths in the United States has topped the 100,000 mark nearly hundred days after the first COVID-19 infection in the country was reported in Washington. The death toll is around as many Americans who died from Covid-19 as from the accumulated number of US troops killed in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars over decades. In a reverse trend, new coronavir